Changing Default Location for Data Source

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Laura - 14 Sep 2004 17:19 GMT

We recently converted to Word 2003 and when I create a
data source, the default location to save it is My
Documents, My Data Source. We want our staff to use our
network drive to save all documents so we instruct them to
change the new file location to their network home drive.
The problem occurs when they reopen the merged document.
Word attempts to find the data source in the My Data
Source folder. They have to browse back to their network
home drive to find the data source. In previous versions
of Word, the file location for the data source defaulted
to the path it was saved to...I'd like make Word 2003 act
the same way...Help!

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Graham Mayor - 14 Sep 2004 18:05 GMT

The location of My Data Source is defined in the MyData subkey of the
registry at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\DataServices.
How much success you will have changing this to your requirements is
anyone's guess. I have not had much success in changing it to anything other
than a different sub folder of My Documents. The data does not seem to
recognize the full path information necessary to redirect it away from the
user.

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> We recently converted to Word 2003 and when I create a
> data source, the default location to save it is My
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> to the path it was saved to...I'd like make Word 2003 act
> the same way...Help!

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